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bajajudy
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Meet Raymond
Do any of you have chickens? This is a miniature rooster who has become part of our family. He has the strangest c-ckadoodledoo you have ever heard.
He sounds like someone has him by the throat. For weeks after we got him, I smiled every time I heard him crow. Now a pet that can make you smile
is a good thing, no? I also credit him with getting Gympy to start laying eggs. We have had her for almost 2 years and she just started laying about
3 months ago. Ray is a stud.
OOPS. I ran out the door and didnt check to see if the picture posted.
[Edited on 4-17-2007 by bajajudy]
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Cypress
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 Chickens are something else.  Roosters are chickens on steroids. 
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Pompano
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ROOSTER!
When I was tadpole size, I often visited my Uncle's farm where there were lots of chickens...and I remember a very large leghorn rooster.
If I had to give that damn monster a name...it would have been Attila...or better yet...Stewmeat!.
When I was helping to collect eggs, he became very territorial, and chased me all over the farmyard, furiously flapping his wings..then leaping on me
when I tripped over a roadapple or other such obstacle. I figured to die on that farm, but luckily my uncle or aunt would save me from a horrible
death by spur or beak.
I will never forget the last time I saw him....on the chopping block....
What goes around, comes around.
So... bajajudy, I take it Raymond is a mite more genteel?
p.s.
Disclaimer...The following is not the personal view of this poster nor can he be held responsible for any decrease in egg production:
From Robert Plamondon's Poultry Pages..."Hens will lay just as many eggs if you don't have a rooster. Hens don't really like roosters very much,
anyway. Roosters will sometimes help defend the flock, especially by keeping a watch on the sky for hawks. But their presence in a flock is optional
unless you plan on hatching some eggs."
[Edited on 4-17-2007 by Pompano]
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Santiago
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Rooster Stick:
As a city boy I had my first introduction to roosters when I rented a room above a garage in the country while going to Fresno State. Walking to the
house for supper and back again required carring a large stick for protection - sumbich was evil. After weeks of being terrorized I heard him coming
up from behind, I turned and swung for the fences and caught the b*strd upside the head. Ate him for dinner next day.
Pomp: What time is 'super' and what time is 'dinner' where you hail from?
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Skeet/Loreto
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Santiago; You must have been going to Fresno State when it first Moved to the "Country" in 1954!!??.
While living in Loreto we allways had Laying Hens with a Rooster named "Tucker" when first introduced to the Pen, immediately mounted all the Hens in
a Mad, Frantic Rush--Thought the "T"sounded better in his name.
Skeet
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bajajudy
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Meet Gympy
Here is Gympy. Our two year old who just started laying eggs.
We bought her before we understood that white chickens are for eating. We did not know to ask for ponedores(I think that is how you spell "laying
hens" in Spanish)
Anyway she was maimed when we got her and as I liked to say, she would not have made the grade at Foster Farms, but we kept her. Since she cannot
move around very well we try to keep a hose(not A) near her for water(see picture). Sometimes she wanders too far from the hose. When she does, she
starts eating aloe. We think that is why she is turning reddish pink. She is one strange bird.
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Iflyfish
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Great looking rooster!
Every time I have been to the Palenquen in Mexico I have lost on white roosters, advice, bet on the brown ones every time.
I had a friend, hens stopped laying. His rooster had died. He called for advice, beings how I was raised on a farm and my mother raised laying hens.
I told him to put used light bulbs in the nest, alabaster eggs etc. to stimulate laying.
He called and told me that my suggestion did not work. He tells me that he did find something that worked by accident. He told me he walked outside
one morning, grumpy and peeed with his hens. He confessed that in a pique of anger he kicked one of the hens and by gum, she layed an egg. This set
the light bulb off in his head and he started to grab his hens by the neck, rub em into the ground and sure enough, henhouse full of eggs.
Apparently the aggressive behavior of the roosters, grabbing the neck, tossing the hens around, stimulates ovulation. Now don't get me wrong and don't
extrapolate this to humans but........and please no militant feminist rants, please, I am just the reporter.
Iflyfish
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Osprey
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I heard that too. Hope the guy doesn't eat those eggs. I also heard somebody did eat them, they were full of poison. Payback I guess. They call
the poison Henlock.
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FARASHA
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FLYFISHERWHENNOTKICKINGHENS - THAT IS A FUNNY STORY.
I always knew, chicks are stupid, my Granny had quite a lot. They never found home from alone. They lost direction to home every single day - we had
to CALL them in every eve.
Granny used a distinctive call - and then they came running like crazy. >f<
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Iflyfish
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Henlock, baaaaad nothing to crow about! Chickenfeed, hardscratch pun....
Iflyfish
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Iflyfish
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FARASHA
Met some stupid chicks in my day too. Sorry your grandmother had so many. I am sure that the problem stopped with your generation. Thanks for sharing.
Iflyfishwhennotkickinthechicksaround
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Pompano
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Pompano: " That was a terrible storm you had down your way. bajajudy. "
bajajudy: " It was bad. Our hen had her back to the wind and she laid the same egg five times."
p.s. bajajudy, if it doesn't work out, maybe the hen could be..ah.. 'useful'.. on a camping trip?
[Edited on 4-20-2007 by Pompano]
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FARASHA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Pompano: " That was a terrible storm you had down your way. bajajudy. "
bajajudy: " It was bad. Our hen had her back to the wind and she laid the same egg five times."
p.s. bajajudy, if it doesn't work out, maybe the hen could be..ah.. 'useful'.. on a camping trip?
[Edited on 4-20-2007 by Pompano] |
GOOD ONE!!!!LMAO
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jerry
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when i was a kid the rooster atacted me too so one day to get even i lite fire crackers and tossing them to the roosters i had to time it right so
they picked it up just at it blew their heads clean off my granny caught me there was hell to pay
jerry and judi
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Sallysouth
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Aw you guys are pretty funny! I personally think Judy has a very good looking "c-ck"!!I just found out today that my 'other-half" has purchased about
30 chicks and is planning to raise them in our garage, in a large cardboard box.I am kinda concerned for many reasons, one being the issue of rodents
that are attracted to the feed for the chicks.The next is the smell. We live in a small 1200 ft house, garage underneath, my bedroom just above, where
I will be recuperating from major surgery. I'm kinda worried. Any advice?
[Edited on 4-21-2007 by Sallysouth]
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bajajudy
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Sallysouth
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He he Judy!! Thats a good one!! But the dumb thing is that he is raising them for someone else!Ergo, no soup!! Would be good for my recovery, but he
doesn't have that part of his brain anymore Thanks for the thought tho!
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Pompano
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He got his chicks...
...and you get this guy.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Sallysouth
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Hey Pomp, you have an extra I can borrow? that would be a chicken Hawk, yes?
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Pompano
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Yes, indeed....a red-tailed southwestern hawk...dubbed the chicken hawk.
30 chicks living below me was great for those college years...but not these days!
Raising chickens...hmm....you either love em or hate em. My wife has a thing about live chickens, she grew up on a farm and thinks they are as dumb
as a box of rocks. Go figure.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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